Pic Of The Moment: Stay Classy, Fox News

[EarlG]

Fox News Jokes, Laughs About Ray Rice Punching His Wife Unconscious

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[samsingh]

1. they look sooo happy

[MADem]

2. I understand the woman co-anchor found the comment giggle-worthy, as well.

What is wrong with those people, I wonder? Are they completely obtuse?

[hibbing]

8. My first thought too

Smiles all around and especially her. What a bunch of clueless fuckwits.

On Edit: Thanks for another great one Earl G!

Peace

[MADem]

14. EarlG always distills "THE" issue of the day down to a succinct image--he's a master!!!! nt

[ailsagirl]

49. The blonde is just grinning from ear to ear

WTF??

[Warren Stupidity]

53. She gets paid a shit ton of money to be a jerk.

A shit ton. It is really not too difficult to understand why she sits there smiling and laughing. Maybe she goes home at night and throws up, but maybe not.

[daleanime]

3. K&R....

[valerief]

4. Ass-stains on humanity. nt

[Gothmog]

5. People who watch fox news are idiots

[Jamaal510]

18. With the exception of

media watchdog sites like Newshounds and MediaMatters.

[Gothmog]

27. Those poor souls watch Fox News so we do not have to

These groups provide an invaluable service to the rest of us

[LynneSin]

6. If I didn't know the story I would have thought that was a snuff video

I watched the Ray Rice elevator video incident. I wish I didn't.

I knew what happened. I knew she ended up surviving. But watching that video for awhile there if I didn't know about the whole Ray Rice thing - it looked like a damn snuff video. She was laying there lifeless. Ray Rice and another person were dragging her around in that elevator like she was a side of dead beef and she was totally unresponsive. They looked like they didn't know what to do with the dead body.

Luckily I saw a few seconds where she came around but in the end that was a horrifying video.

And btw Faux & Friends tried comparing it to the Jay-Z/Solange Knowles Elevator video - at least in that Video Solange Knowles was upright and fighting back - not comatose after being decked out by Jay-Z (I don't even think he was fighting in that video).

These people are assholes!

[lapfog_1]

7. I can't help but wonder if they would be so disgustingly jovial

if the people involved were white.

I think they wouldn't joke about it.

[arcane1]

11. They would. It's still a woman being beaten, after all n/t

[Ed Suspicious]

12. I think we need a flow chart for this.

[tclambert]

16. You're thinking of something like: If rich white man harmed or insulted, then respond with outrage;

if white man (not rich), take mild offense; if white woman, ask what she was wearing; if black woman, shrug and joke it off; if black man, find video of him jaywalking so you can say the criminal deserved to get shot so many times.

(Sorry I didn't put it in graphical form.)

[Ed Suspicious]

20. That perfectly clarifies. Just what I was looking for. :)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. nailed it.

If blonde, hawt, young white woman, big headlines with PICS.

[young_at_heart]

9. How can they be so clueless?

Wipe those ridiculous grins off your faces!!

[marble falls]

10. Fox is the worst. My blood pressure goes up just seeing these idiots in a photo.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. To me, the more offensive comment came from ...

the guy (Doucey?). He said (something to the effect of): "The message is: elevators have cameras." Applying, it's okay to punch someone if you don't get caught on camera!

[ailsagirl]

51. MORONS!!!

For anyone to say something as frivolous and idiotic as that about the elevator
incident completely boggles the mind.

Every day, their ineptitude and cluelessness gets worse, if possible.

[tclambert]

15. Thank Heavens he identified the message. I thought it was about violence, or woman beating,

or maybe the culture of football, or criminal behavior, or don't marry a violent asshole, or something. I never would have thought of "take the stairs." Just one question: If they HAD taken the stairs, wouldn't she have fallen down the stairs and broken her neck? Oh, well, I'm sure if she had died, they would have thought of some zingers to lighten up the story.

[Contrary1]

17. Ah, isn't that special...

I see that Anna Kooiman is fulfilling her duties at Fox by showing her legs, and laughing at the smart men's jokes.

[tavalon]

19. wow, I really didn't think Fox "News" could go lower

Silly me.

[narnian60]

21. Disgusting.

They make me sick. I still can't believe my 85 year old mother takes every word on Fox as gospel.

[yuiyoshida]

22. The show is called FOX & FRIENDS.....

Do you ever wonder who their "FRIENDS" are???
IT must be a secret

[ET Awful]

34. Actually, it's just a typo . . . it was supposed to read "Fox and Fiends", but it was too late.

By the time they caught the typo, all the marketing materials were already printed.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. These guys know their audience....

A bunch of bitter old men who've been through a divorce (or five) and who's kids don't call.

[SunSeeker]

24. K & R

[yallerdawg]

25. Talking to their audience.

Look - Ray Rice "and she married him," JayZ and Beyoncé/Solange, Rihanna/Chris Brown.

It's 'those people-nudge, nudge, wink, wink' - nothing to see here.

If you can watch Fox News, you can add lobotomy to your list of medical treatments you won't need in the future. After 5 minutes of watching, the procedure is complete.

"Saturday Night Live" does a great parody of 'fox and friends' where they run factual corrections from the broadcast at the end of each and every broadcast. Or is it parody?

'News' my ass!

[Old Crow]

26. Musings of someone who hasn't owned a TV in decades

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I don't own a TV and haven't for 25 years. I got rid of it for two main reasons:

(1) I couldn't stand the amount of time you are forced to watch ads (36% of your time, on average); and

(2) being a busy medium (lotsa stuff to look at and listen to and--ooh, look--another wipe transition!), it too often sacrifices critical thinking for fluff.

On occasion, I'll watch some TV when visiting my parents or staying at a hotel or when watching a clip online. I like to think that since I'm not a regular consumer of it, I notice things regular viewers don't--in much the same way that someone who's returned from time abroad notices things about the U.S. that escape the attention of those who haven't left it.

When I see clips and stills of Fox & Friends, I'm really stunned by the costumes--that is, the wardrobes of the hosts, which are clearly scripted, just like much of the dialogue. Here's the subtext of the costumes, as I see it.

MEN: In this world of our friends, we like our men to be compatible with Mainstream Business. Even if they're witty and having fun, on the turn of a dime our male hosts could present a quarterly earnings report at a shareholder meeting. They are, when it comes right down to it, serious beings. They can have fun and all. But they're serious. Just look at their clothes. You can trust them.

WOMEN: We like our women bimbo-ish: high heels, bright short dresses that threaten to do a Basic Instinct flash in every segment, a generous amount of glam makeup and, preferably, blonde hair. No woman anywhere could or would present a quarterly earnings report at a shareholder meeting in this costume. But, c'mon--they're women: we don't have to take them seriously. If they're good at socializing with the viewers and the male hosts, and make things more fun, well, that's awesome. But they don't have the same gravitas function as the men; their real function is window-dressing and a bit of spice. Caliente!

That's what I see, at any rate.

Oh, and the other thing that jumps out is that Brian Kilmeade clearly has an IQ that hovers around 89 or so. That makes me suspect that any viewers who want to join this Fox & Friends coffee klatsch every morning are similarly slow. While slower viewers might find his dim-wittedness comforting, intelligent viewers--regardless of their political views--surely must find it off-putting.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. good observations. you got it.

I don't watch tv either, so when I do catch a clip, the network conventions stand out to me too.

Wonder how many fux pinheads sit there praying the bimbo in red will re-cross her legs?

[Old Crow]

46. Thanks for the nod

Nice to hear from another non-viewer of TV, too.

Your last line made me laugh. It makes me think of that character who played Newman on Seinfeld, sitting there during the Sharon Stone interrogation scene, sweating and leaning forward in his chair.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. I dunno. ..

Haven't seen it!

I do watch Big Bang Theory once in a while though, on Amazon prime.

[Cleita]

28. I'll watch Fox if they hire some hot guys and put them in kilts so I

can look up their skirts too. I won't care what stupidity comes out of their mouths then.

[merrily]

29. No words.

[underpants]

30. Why didn't Kilmeade throw the B-word in at the end

Everyone knows that is what meant

Doucheybag is saying "it's okay just don't get caught"

The know their audience

[Rex]

31. And yet they will be on tomorrow and the next day, poisoning minds and

making sexist/racist comments for a yuk yuk from their brain dead audience.

[catbyte]

32. OMFG, but it makes perfect sense. After all, with the exception of Greta V., all Fox-PAC

women anchors are as "bimbofied" as possible--the blonder & more buxom the better. Complete fantasy objects for the creepy old male bagger audience that is their fan base. Is there even one African American female on Fox-PAC? Or even a brunette?

[kelliekat44]

33. This abuse was caught on video. How much more is never seen. That's what they should be saying.

Such abuse is not confined by ethnicity, religion, or economic status. It happens in all groups all the time. As we are typing here it is happening to some woman somewhere. We need more serious discussion of this not some jerk-ass jokes by pundits.

[SummerSnow]

35. Rethug women love this.Look how happy that woman is.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

42. she's smug.

I'm not like...her. Grin. It'll never happen to me. Grin Grin. And look at me, I don't have any problems with men. Not like those other women. Grin Grin Grin. No worries!

[SummerSnow]

52. exactly.She's one of them women who thinks women who

are abused are at fault.

[KansDem]

36. FOX News: Doing for comedy what it does for news.

[SummerSnow]

37. fox new was more bitter about the Santa Claus being white and Obama tan suit

much more than they are about domestic violence.

[MissKat]

39. The message is...

Look at the grins.

Ha ha, hee hee, ho ho, that silly woman should have taken the stairs.

Having once worked at a center for battered and abused young women I can tell you, family violence isn't a joke. This woman could've suffered brain damage that isn't even apparent now.

No. The message is this--she needs help.
And fox finds that funny.

Some day all the hatred and hysteria will cause it to cave in on itself. I just wish it was today.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

40. I expect no more than this from them.

[tanyev]

41. Sometimes I'm amazed that they give Kilmeade a live microphone.

[Enthusiast]

44. An example of the Republican War on Women.

Fox "News" promotes racism, cruelty, hatred and bigotry.

[duhneece]

45. Black man hitting white woman

I think their response would have been quite different if that had happened.

[3catwoman3]

50. They would be calling...

...for a lynching.

[freshwest]

48. And the two blonds giggle...

[EEO]

54. It's so surprising Fox News is tone deaf...

... said no one ever (well, not smart people).

[SoapBox]

55. Disgusting.

Fuck off Fuks Fake News.

[jonjensen]

56. megan kelly who would ward churchill bomb?

Megan kelly asked ward churchill if america should be bombed. He should have answered well fox news building would be a good start!

[LeftishBrit]

57. Utterly disgusting...

(and incidentally a violent person could injure another person even more if they caused them to fall on the stairs; so the comment makes no sense from any point of view)

How can someone be so flippant about violence in 2014? It does not make it less important if the violence is to your spouse.

[7962]

58. And here's the apology:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/fox-friends-host-walks-back-ray-rice-video-stairs-comments-uproar-article-1.1933590

[SmittynMo]

59. Take the stairs?

OMG. What an idiot!!! So if she gets hit at the top of a flight of stairs, and falls down the stairs, it's better than in an elevator? What's so damn funny about that? These three are total clueless idiots, and do not belong on the airwaves. It's sickening.